Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phonological Word, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Morpheme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Words exist as distinct entities only in written language. 5. 1: anatomy of words: word: a minimal unit of meaningful speech that can stand alone. There is no difference, they have the same definition. Concept: a mental representation of some sort of statistical regularity in our experience; a representation of a class of objects of events: duality of words. We continue to learn these all the and centuries time. Serve grammatical purposes introduced, and old content words are discarded from languages continuously. List 3 words that we don"t use anymore. List 3 new-fangled words our parents didn"t (and may still not) have. Nouns represent objects (people, animals, things, place) Adjectives describe the properties of objects (or our perceptual experience of them) Called open class because new words are constantly added, old words fade from use. Determiners (the, a, some) link nouns with referents. Conjunctions (and, but, because) combine phrases and sentences into larger units.